Roger reported another very nice day on the cod boat. Fishing was very good today all around and the weather was near perfect with just a modest breeze providing an optimum swing on the anchor. A mixed bag that included about the same amount of cod as yesterday and again a nice mix of dark and green fish with the best in the mid to upper teens. A tremendous amount of scup, mostly jumbo size today with a number of anglers easily getting 20 to 30 plus big porgies apiece!! Sizes on the scup to just under 3lbs but most were in the 1 to 2 lb range. In fact longtime friend and deck hand Pete Crawford was really impressed with the size and quantity of the porgies today and the volume of big scup, along with all the other good eating ground fish kept him, first mate Chris L and Roger wildly busy on the long ride home from the cod grounds as fish were cut and skinned all the way back to the dock! A good amount of sea bass today as well with about 20 or so truly jumbo sea bass in the 3.5 to 5lb range and quite a few other nice sea bass. Most anglers had at least a couple sea bass with a few getting 5 to 7 nice sea bass apiece. Some nice perch as well. Some angler hi lights included Mike from CT who had hi hook on the cod with 4 keepers to 12 lbs, more than 30 big scup, a half dozen sea bass and some ocean perch while Mike T from Narragansett RI had 2 nice cod in the 8 to 10 lb range along with more than 30 big scup and a full limit of big sea bass to 5lbs, Peter Tu had 3 nice market cod, a few jumbo sea bass and more than 25 big porgies and so on. Due once again to a relative lack of the unmentionables anglers were frequently able to successfully use two hook rigs and double header scup were frequent and even a few double header sea bass! One angler fishing with one hook down just above the sinker had a couple nice keeper cod, more than 20 big scup and three bomber sea bass in the 3.5 to 4.5 lb range. Everything was on bait today. A mess of pics will be posted above today’s report courtesy of Roger. Next Cod trip is set to sail tomorrow morning at 7am aboard the Gail Frances with Capt. Rich at the helm.
Capt. Ray reported another good outing with the scup today. A solid two hour bite provided full pails for the small group of customers aboard. While no one today was reported to have achieved a full limit of scup, it was reported that a few anglers were rather close. All scup today, very little in the way of sea bass. Lots of fish in the 1.5 to 2 lb range today with the best just over 2lbs so certainly a lot of quality! Next scup trip is set to sail tomorrow morning at 7am aboard the Admiral Frances.
The report from first mate Cote from the most recent Tuna trip is of slow fishing. A couple albacore(25 to 30lbs), a wahoo(40 lbs) and a keeper Mako (100 lbs) and not much else this time around outside of a pup Mako and pub Sword released. Next trip is set to sail this coming Thursday morning at 7am. As of now the trip is a go and there is still room for additional bookings so if interested please call the office to book a rail position and put down a deposit.
The report from last night’s Striper trip was of a few nice bass and a couple blue fish. Next Striper trip is set for October 5th (this coming Saturday Night) at 7pm by reservation.